Botnets, Cybercrime, and Cyberterrorism: Vulnerabilities and Policy Issues for Congress

Abstract

Cybercrime is becoming more organized and established as a transnational business. High technology online skills are now available for rent to a variety of customers, possibly including nation states, or individuals and groups that could secretly represent terrorist groups. The increased use of automated attack tools by cybercriminals has overwhelmed some current methodologies used for tracking Internet cyberattacks, and vulnerabilities of the U.S. critical infrastructure, which are acknowledged openly in publications, could possibly attract cyberattacks to extort money, or damage the U.S. economy to affect national security.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 29, 2008
Accession Number
ADA477642

Entities

People

  • Clay Wilson

Organizations

  • Library of Congress

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Cyber

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Computer Crime
  • Computer Programs
  • Computers
  • Congress
  • Cyberattacks
  • Cybersecurity
  • Cyberspace Operations
  • Cyberterrorism
  • Department Of Homeland Security
  • Employment
  • Information Security
  • Information Systems
  • National Security
  • Operating Systems
  • Personnel Management
  • Terrorists
  • War Colleges

Readers

  • Cybersecurity.
  • Economics

Technology Areas

  • Cyber